/lit/ - Literature

>>4905658
We hates Commieses! We hates them, precious!

>>4718726

In addition to being a terrible writer in general, does Rand also have the absolute worst character names in history?

Seriously
>Dagny Taggart
>Gail Wynand
>Ellsworth Toohey
>Balph Eubank
>Cuffy Meigs

This is just going by the Wiki list for Atlas Shurgged and Fountainhead.

Why do you hate her, /lit/?

13.5

are you guys kidding me? I like her work, but CHRIST, Ayn Rand looks like she was worked over with a shovel.

I finally got around to reading Atlas Shrugged (my good friend Darrell recommended to me) and it really changed my life.

I feel like ....everything i do isnt' appreciated. everything i do for stupid society...society never appreciates me. I'm sick of it.

this book really opened my eyes. I recommend that anyone who loves reading to read this.

>>3333257
An old Russian fable involves two peasants who live on neighbouring plots of land. One peasant owns a goat; his neighbour does not. One day an angel of mercy comes down from heaven and speaks to the peasant who has no goat. The angel offers him one wish, anything he wants. The peasant makes up his mind immediately. “Please kill my neighbour goat”’ he says. Such jealousy has broad political implications. Millions of “poor” would only by too happy to see a new regime sweep away the success that has let a few of their neighbours amass wealth. Rather then obtain equal wealth, they want equal misery by saying “Please kill my neighbour goat.” The Marxists appealed successfully in much of the world."Why should thou sit, and I stand?" Social justice will be attained, the poor are told, when they have unseated the affluent and supplanted them in their possessions. Such doctrines have devastated most of Asia and Africa ever since the Second World War.

This thread makes me moist.